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Book Title: Libanius the Sophist : Rhetoric, Reality, and Religion in the Fourth Century
Item Length: 9in
Item Height: 0.9in
Item Width: 6in
Author: Raffaella Cribiore
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Topic: Ancient / Rome, Ancient & Classical
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication Year: 2013
Genre: Literary Criticism, History
Item Weight: 32.1 Oz
Number of Pages: 272 Pages